#MANAGEMENT

Revenge Is Best Not Served at All

Take the anger, hurt and resentment that arise when you feel you’ve been wronged in a business situation, and turn it into positive energy.
#management #energy

Shoeless Joe, Iowa Cornfields and Surface Finishing Hyper-growth

A variation of a well-known movie quote is sound business advice, too.
#management

Electroplating

Asterion to Host Certified Electroplater-Finisher Training

The course, to be presented by the AESF Foundation, will be held April 30-May 4, at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana.
#management #workforce development #education

Atotech Hires Business Manager, CPT

Andrew Pfeifer will be responsible for the company’s plating (zinc and zinc-nickel), zinc flake and surface pretreatment product lines.
#management

Doerken USA Creates Director of Business Affairs Position

Dennis Mulalic will be responsible for business development growth in non-automotive industries and strategic marketing planning for the company.
#automotive #management

Turning Business Travel into an Adventure

Columnist Matt Kirchner recommends you go off the beaten path on your next trip, and enjoy the experience.
#management

Ametek Brookfield Names Division VP/Business Unit Manager

Joseph Plante comes to the company with 27 years’ experience in engineering and program management.
#management

How Not to Quit Your Job

Almost regardless of how miserable your experience might have been, shake your employer’s hand and thank him or her for the opportunity provided.
#management #workforce development

Production Plus Corp/Magic Rack Hires its First VP of Business Development

Production Plus Corp. has hired John Schott as its first vice president of business development.
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Mechanical Finishing

Combination Wheels Boost Cutting, Grinding Productivity

Saint-Gobain Abrasives’s Norton Quantum3 (NQ3) line of depressed-center grinding wheels includes combination wheels designed for more efficient and faster cutting and grinding, resulting in increased productivity and longer wheel life.
#management

The 55 Most Important Words in Sales

Solving customer problems doesn’t take many words.
#management

Video: What's Behind the Gardner Business Index

Gardner Intelligence offers a variety of tools for forecasting and trend analysis, precisely focused for the people who sell and consume capital equipment.
#management #economics

After Two Minutes … Just Shut Up!

If you’re on a sales call and find yourself talking for long stretches, you should stop.
#management

Liquid Coating

Dürr Paint Test and Training Center In Michigan Packing Them In

Test and Training Center offers unique resources that provide OEMs offline opportunities to test paint and sealer materials for their production applications.
#management #workforce development #education

Electroplating

Top Sales Trait Might Not Be What You Think

The essential qualities for success fall short without follow-through. 
#management

Mechanical Finishing

The Robots Are Coming — Will Your Job Be Next?

With advancing automation, reconsider what robots have to offer.
#management #workforce development

Liquid Coating

Hosco Wins Michigan U.S. Small Business Award

Hosco receives the Michigan Small Business Exporter of the Year. Tom Murray, president and CEO of Hosco Fittings, received the award for the company.
#management

Is Your Team Ready for IIoT?

How to prepare for the coming Industrial Internet of Things revolution.
#management #Industry 4.0

Electroplating

Production Schedule Driven Automated Energy Management

Surface finishing line process automation systems are normally designed to optimize production throughput and assure compliance with operating parameters such as time-in-tank. The basic elements of automated energy management on process lines are control of energy consumption in active, standby and inactive states, primarily by ventilation, heating and cooling, agitation and filtration. This paper presents a case study of the new process control model.
#research #management #surfin

Who is Defining Your Shop's Brand?

Identify what makes your company unique, and connect that to customers.
#management